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TREKKING IN "B.A.T. FACTORIES AT
CENTRAL CHINA.
DEVASTATION AND FAMINE IN KWEICHOW.
PERILS AND ADVENTURES OF TWO GALLANT PRIESTS.
POOTUNG.
LOCAL COMMISSIONER'S LETTER
12
WHY BUSINESS HAS BEEN
4. SUSPENDED,
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
„,00 ota. sal.
AUGUST 1521, 1947 2.5. Bank 1,053 buy,
Do Losdon.....114 sum. Chartered Bank..........................) now. Mercantile Bank, A. &B...239 nom.
Do
C...£13 Bum.. &0. Bank Que Tai Chi, lecal Commissioner East Asia Bank......
“-�ན་མ་བ་w,29:buy, DOBL of Foreign Affairs, has written the Csator
„590 ml. After four weary months of following letter to the workers of Garth Chinese()).
North arduous travelling by mules, sedan the B. A. T. factories in Pootung, Union Insurance chairs and interminable stretches according to a local Chinese newingtase Insurance.f. i7 nom,
Chins Fice Insurance....10 bay. of walking, Father Terence Connelly paper:-
Hong Kong Fire Ins.....3600 aal. of Boston and Brother Lambert "I have received your lettere Beamboats..... 91
$39 100. Budde of Holland reached Shanghai dated July 23rd, stating that the Steamboats........ when all hope for their safety had to suspend work for four months Indo-Chinas (Prof)......$30
B. A. T. management has decided Hong Kong Pugs
Da, been abandoned, anys the Shanghai from July 29th, and requesting
(Del)46 buy- Times. These two missionaries that negotiations be opened with a
Bhall Transporta nom formed a section of the party who, view to having the workmen's sav-Star Farmer. 34 bay.
Waterboats,
..$18.90 nom. ing fund issued. I have also re- following the anti-Christian and ceived similar letters from the M
China Sugarsino.. ....113 Bal. Malabon Bugari anti-foreign disorders in the pro-mittee, the Political Training De Kaisa Mining Ad........
Labour Unions Unification Com-
Bongaois vince Kweichow, were forced to partiment of the 2nd route of the leave the mission field barely eecap- Shanghai (Chinese)
Lang kata(combined). territory)
(angle) ing with their lives. With others of Municipality.
S'hat. Explorations wla, 3) nom the party, some of whom are re-
Shanghai Loans ....................
Th. of Bon *****H. K. $3.65 buy. maining temporarily at Hankow and
Tronoh
..19/3 0. other at Chungking, they set out
Dral Laspians
bom, Н.К. & K. Wharts over four months ago on a trek
HK, & W. Docks... through-the-wildest part of Central China in an effort to reach civiliza- tion and safety.
"I have already sent subordin, Ates to lodge a verbal protest. and Mr. Morris, the
According to Major Bassett general managers, the factories might re- sume work after a fortnight
Usual Custom.
"Upon being questioned, Major Bassett stated that it is a custom- Ary rule among the factories not to pay wages when the factories have to suspend work, and if the cigarette market does not became more favourably, they would have to close down their business.
The history of the old pioneers of the West, with all the suffering, anxiety and danger through which they passed, can scarcely have been worse than the experience of this gallant little band of religious workers who struggled on for four Major. Baiett, further ex- months through hostile country, pisining, the cessation, of work "beast by bandita and possible death stated that the company's business on all sides, fighting against star had become very bad and orders vation and thirst, but battling, man- from the interior have been very fally, hoping against hope for the poor; furthermore, they have to sight of civilization and those mate- pay heavy taxes, thus they have to rial things of life of which they had carry on their business on a reduc been deprived for years. They ed scale. As cigarettes are very crossed mountain ranges, fought easily spoilt and cannot be pre- their way through dangerous and served for any length of time, they tortuous defies, laboured through have to stop the manufacture. arid wastes with desolation to right Furthermore, the past few years and left, suffered sickness and were poor trading years for the privition but finally struggled into Company. Chungking bereft of almost all of their belongings, sick and exhausted but happy to have escaped with their lives.
Cigarette Tax.
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New Binggizourings, ShangEn Dooka H.K.&. Hetais
K
H.K.
70 nom.. .45/- bay.
11 nom. fls. not.
...112 buy..
Ela,188) bay. ..Tls, 4.40 buy.
been hoity...... Humphreys Estates. Prippe's
Bmiding, Bural Lands
Ewo Uuttone
36 10 .
nom.
... nom... ...$99 fam. šli nopi
7.40 bay
31 DOM
Dirrioutsfases**5364****
Tis, 1.80 buy.
Do
(Dew)..............Tls. 25 nom.
laughs Cotton (old)...The. China Buses.....Tia. 7 nom. H.K. Tramway............ 80 bay. Peak Tram (old)...........$14,30). Singaporu Tractions..............13/. sol.” Tape younan.1 com Amusem922
buy, 21 al. Canton load Cements (combined)......37 xel
fr (old) .$6.60 nom China Lights (camb.)...... 13
170, (18W) 17 I sel
3 #el. (old)....$94.nom. (***) ........$0 nom
+ дога. 313 sel. "$13 bay.
Da
China Providents..............
Leng
(new)
.35 nom
$37 buy.
$10 nom
....85 sek.
$20 bay.
și Rom
sume business, thereby maintain De Farm
To enable the Company to re- Constructions......... ing the livelihood of several thou-Der A. Wings..... Tragis Death of a Nun. sand workers, they hope that the BK. Electros...... Macao Electrics..... The most tragic part of the entire Chinese Government will
recon- FK. Bop (old) journey was the death through ex-sider the imposition of the cigarette
10. haustion of one of theis aumber, tax and take into consideration the Lee Orwertorda. Sister Clarissa Statmiller, of Colum-state of affairs in the interior and Mackintosh.......... bus, Ohio, who passed away after the lack of protection to foreign incerc she had reached Chungking.
merchants."-North China Daily United Asbestos The two, arrivals at Shanghai News.
Watsons (old)' **** $lis nom. bring with them a story of, terrible
Wm. Paws........ .35 Bal suffering and devastation through-
TuloyBuses...m... $.70 el cut the country through which they
bay.brjera: el-mallera; karalan passed.
wominal.
Désolation,
Bandits and soldiers are running loose over the entire countryside buraidg, killing and terrorizing the inhabitants famine is stalking everywhere. The country people are dying of starvation in many parts, whole villages and towns have bren denuded, others have been burned to the ground by the marauding bands of brigands,
RAILWAY LIABLE FOR
LUGGAGE."
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OWNER'S RIGHT TO TRAVEL IN ANOTHER CARRIAGE.
An appeal by the Great Western Railway Company from a judg ment of Judge Seully at Maryle- bone County Court, holding them liable to Mr. Stanley Vosper in £51 for the foes of a suit case and its contents, was dismissed by King's Bench Divisional Court.
The suit case was put in a first- class compartment in the Plymouth express train by z porter at friends in the train, travelled in the restaurant car. ..
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EXCHANGE
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
August 15th, 1927 Of Loxbos-
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night at man g Credits, at 4 months' right 2/0 71,5 Documentary BUL
months' sight
Death Ridden Walled City. Brother Lambert Budde reports that one walled city through which they passed had no more than a dozen houses standing, the others by fire after a raid by bandits, the inhabitants having scattered in all directions to preserve their lives. These were gradually starving to death having no money to buy rice and means of growing it. The ing after his luggage in the train, On BoxT1999, A province of Kweichow is over-ridden and that Mr. Vosper sosented him- with the evils of opium smoking self from which is being indulged as never before. All the women and most of the children are addicted to the habit and the ravages thus created are almost beyond belief.
having been completely destroyed Exeter, and Mr. Vosper, finding O PA, on domand
- Credita, 4 montha'sight... The railway company contended ON NEW YO that they were entitled to have the
Hille, on demand assistance of the passenger in look-:·
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compartment in which his luggage was placed for US DALOUTTA An unreasonable time.
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Lord Justice Atkin said that there could be no duty on the pas senger to remain with his luggage throughout the journey, because Frivate, 30 days, sight Mission Looted.
the company invited him to be ab-
ON YOKOBA-On demand, Father Connelly witnessed. the seat for a period in the restaurant
Os MANILA On demand looting of the Protestant Reformed car.
ON SINGAPORE. On demand... OF BAJAYA OR dernand Church Mission at Sheochowiu,
Og Harmono-0 On demand Hunan, which was carried out in a
Or B400x-On domand most distressing manner by Chinese
Dr Bisexor—Üs demand 2, ". 951- students. The looting add burning In this territory famine had play Borras, Banka Buying rate 89. of mission property was carried out eu havoc with the inhabitants and Gas Lar, 10 flas, paraol. and instigated by the Political constant bandit raids had left, the Ban Bives, per
25 5/18 Bureau who conducted an auction of natives fearful and jacking in money mission goods in the strasts. I or goods. In this district Paa describable scenes followed the sionists have distributed over auction. The goods which could not $100,000 for rice. be sold were thrown into the streets and fought for by the rahblo. The
Ten Remain." Political Bureau then turned Lambert Buddle are the first of the Father Connelly and Brother attention to the mission school which was thoroughly looted and then set on fire. The burning last-from Central Chind and there are
ed for two, daya.
Filendly Bandita.
Passionate Order to reach Shanghal
still tea inmembers of the Order re- maizing in the interior. Brother Buddle is well well-known in Bowe The party encountered numbers us an archeologist..
Other members of the
of bandits on their long journey
......
Ame
and for a considerable time went party who travelled from Kweichow in fear of their lives. In all in-and have arrived safely at Hankow
Montignor Dominic Ligen stances, however, those bandits en-are eruntered when crossing the moun bacher, "Fathers Basil Bauer of tain ranges, acted kindly to the Sharon, Pa., Anthony Maloney of travellers, pointing out the easiest Louisville, Jeremiah McNamara of paths for travel and refraining Philadelphia. Two sisters of the frem molesting any member of the Order, of St. Joseph remain hehind party. Part of the journey led the Chungking, namely, Florence party through the wild regions, in- Sullivan of Pittsburg and Anne habited by the Miae aborigines and Callaghan of Philadelphia. - These there was constant danger from two members of the party have been attacks by these savage tribes, detained at Chungking because of Monsignor Lagenbacher was comillness and they will be conducted to. pelled to dispose of all his pontiShangha az soon as they are well ficial robes and vestments to prenough to travel with Enther Agatha vont them falling into the hands of Purtill-of-Union-City-and- the Chinese.
Father Constanting Leech of Pitts
·burg...
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